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The release is datelined "SAN FRANCISCO – January 13, 2026": "Starting today, the new Slackbot is generally available for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers."^[1]

Start: Jan 13, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Slackbot Relaunches as a Personal AI Agent for Work

Slack turned its decade-old Slackbot into an AI agent that searches your conversations and files, drafts content, schedules meetings and takes actions, rolling out to Business+ and Enterprise+ plans.

Salesforce made the new Slackbot generally available on 13 January 2026 for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, in a phased rollout through January and February^[1]
Slackbot became a personal agent built into Slack that works from a user's conversations, files, channels and colleagues, respecting existing permissions^[1]
Enterprise admins could restrict or set Slackbot access permissions until 10 February 2026^[1]
Parker Harris called it "the front door to the Agentic Enterprise"; Salesforce said Slackbot would become the way to work with Agentforce and third-party agents^[1]
One customer quoted said it saved him "at bare minimum, 90 minutes a day"^[1]

Notable features

Answers and search grounded in Slack conversations, files and connected Salesforce data^[1][2]
Creates content such as canvases and meeting briefs, and schedules meetings^[1][2]
Nothing to install: built into Slack for every eligible user^[1]
Planned orchestration of Agentforce and third-party agents from one conversational interface^[1]

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salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/01/13/slackbot-announcement
salesforce.com· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Jan 13, 2026 ✓· 73% of score
The release is datelined "SAN FRANCISCO – January 13, 2026": "Starting today, the new Slackbot is generally available for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers."
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Meet Slackbot, Your New Agentic Work OS BFF
salesforce.com· Published Jan 13, 2026· 27% of score
Salesforce's^[1] companion story of the same day walks through the new Slackbot's search, content creation and scheduling.

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Business09/24/2026@TechDesk
Slack CEO Denise Dresser Leaves Salesforce to Become OpenAI's Revenue Chief
Foundry Square IV, 500, Howard Street, South of Market, Financial District, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
Starts 12/09/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE290 days agoCNBC^[1] (9 December 2025): "OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it's tapped Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer."
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Starts 08/26/2026 8:05PMCONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE30 days agoThe release datelined 'SAN FRANCISCO, August 26, 2026' (published 1:05 pm PT) says 'Salesforce^[1][3] and Anthropic are announcing Claudeforce, an expanded strategic partnership'.
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